Yep, it’s not as if you can just go dig them up and sell them right then and there and get the big prices. There’s preparation that involves drying, and the root shrinks when it dries. Only the very hard-up sell them “wet,” and take a big dollar hit for doing so, but if you need it right then you need it right then, I guess.
‘Only the very hard-up sell them “wet,” and take a big dollar hit for doing so...”
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Not exactly true.
The green (wet) market has been strong for many years and Asian buyers now prefer to buy green unwashed root.
I have bought & sold thousands of lbs. of wild American Ginseng (panax quinquefolium) roots over the years.
The two biggest sales I made for individual roots were one at $2800.00 (132 year old Catskill Mtn. wild) & another for $3700.00 (182 year old Catskill Mtn. wild root) both green & both sold to Koreans.
BTW, the article is filled with inaccuracies.